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Advertise in Action Magazine • DEPARTMENTS • Letters to Editor ......................................4 Editor & Publisher ................Sam Kindrick Sam Kindrick ..........................................6 Advertising Sales ..............Amy Heller Reif ....................Action Staff Scatter Shots ........................................11 Photography.............................Action Staff Distribution............................Ronnie Reed Composition..........................Elise Taquino Volume 42 • Number 1 • FEATURE • Randy Toman Jr. .....................................7 Jacques Strap .......................................13 Action Magazine, January 2017 • 3 • Big reader response to Alex Harvey article Club, and that Harvey is the best articles I've read Texas Music and you have . A heartwarming story tastic artist , writer lyricist. one of the greatest song - in a very long time a real winner. Thanks, for and thank you Sam for it . Such a Talented Man. writers living on the planet Wayne Marti n: Great a great start to my morn - Carol Maciel : Awe - The last accolade to today. article. I am a FAN ing ! some! come in was from Alex Although these two Jeff Haese: Got to Vicki Smart Penh all: Don Tyer : Very well Harvey himself. He waited men are polar opposites in meet him in Burnet when Sam Kindrick, please read written - as you always do until two days before many facets of their lives, he played at Trailblazers. I my review of The Hiway - - and interesting story Christmas to weigh in via both are friends of mine play there once a month, men Concert. *a little late about a gifted song the Facebook page of Ac - today, and I share a spiri - and he was so nice, and in coming* writer....couldn't help but tion editor-publisher Sam tual connection with Har - we had a great conversa - Janice Schleuning think of my grandson - Jef - Kindrick. vey which was detailed in tion on the topic of song - Andreolli: Thanks Sam- ferson Remmert - who First off, Alex wanted to last month’s cover article. writing...Great guy you have a way with wants to make it in the know if I knew anyone in The response I got on Emmett M Pastran Jr .: words! Loved it-I've read it songwriting/entertainment El Paso who might check the Harvey article is Great read on one of my three times so far-can't get business. Our cover article on out a pug pup he was something that I deeply favorite subjects ! enough of it! Mike Hicks: Sam, you Alex Harvey in the De - thinking of buying for his appreciate, and the kindly Geoff Mayes: Great Margie Harri s: should not hesitate to cember issue of Action re - wife’s son. Then he added, words that come from writing, Sam Kindrick. Wow...what a story....it enter this story in the sulted in more favorable “Great job on the article...if these readers are what Wade Jacoby : Good took all of my emotions...I Readers Digest short comments than any article keeps me doing what I do. read. Thanks Sam. never was aware of a lot of I didn’t tell you yet. I’ve we have run since the story contest !! If they It is not about money. Dee Dee Williams : what I read. Life is a jour - heard lots of good feed - March, 2015 story on have such a thing. Now be Money can’t buy this sort Mercy!!!! Awesome arti - ney and it was very inter - back. Merry Christmas Royce Showalter. sure to take the advice I of stuff. cle!!! Good read!!!!! TY esting going through and Happy New Year!” Those who read both give you, after all I did Here are some of the Priest Kemper : WOW . someone else’s journey I can only take this as a articles know that Showal - spend the best 3 years of comments I received on . what a way with words, .....knowing that we are complement, coming from ter is the last living found - my life at Alamo Heights the Alex Harvey article. you have, my friend. A true blessed by the music that one of the greatest word ing member of the San High school in the 9th Vivian Travis: Thanks gift. Couple that with a comes out of it!Thank you mechanics I have ever Antonio chapter of the grade, but don't think for a for sharing, Sam.... One of powerhouse story of for sharing it with us! known. Bandidos Motorcycle second that I am any - Mary Louise Schnei - where near as dumb as I der Chapman: What a look!!! Anyway, I really en - 651-4541 marvelous tribute for a truly great songwriter by a joyed the read, Thanx. 4810 FM 1518 N. truly great writer. Thank Romy Ve la: Great arti - 1/4 MILE EAST both of you for sharing cle. I still remember when Let us cater your God given talents he played at the Bijou. He your holiday OFF IH35 with the whole wide was great. party or bring HOURS: world!!! Elizabeth Loper : A your party to Mike Ullevig Sr. : Great pleasure to read. So many Texas Pride. 7 DAYS article Sam. 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And I’m not going to bore tained material which was eventful with nostalgic clos - state comptroller for most of his years in San Antonio. anyone with a ings, sad passings, and the major back cover addition I attended Olly’s funeral along with friends snivel and whine session over the political landscape. of the world famous 11th Street Cowboy Bar in Ban - Wayne Harper and Augie Meyers, both of whom worked Both the music and nightclub industries here dera. in Otten restaurants. took some soul-shattering hits throughout the year For a number of years, Fred Medrano’s You Be Mike Clancey and other musicians gathered 2016, while the inevitable changes affected me both The Star Karaoke business was our back cover adver - at the bed of beloved former club operator Brenda personally and on the business playing field. I lost long - tiser. Fred’s karaoke system for hire started fading from Boswell, who would pay the musicians who worked time advertisers and gained new ones with promise and the scene when the club operators started purchasing her nightclubs when she didn’t have money to excitement. their own karaoke sound systems and record collec - cover the rent. And I know that Brenda bought Ac - The natural order of death took nightclub own - tions. Medrano is a great person, a personal friend, and tion ads for her Country On The Rocks and Pour ers and musicians alike, many of them my friends and he was a faithful and longtime advertiser, but the con - House clubs when she couldn’t pay the milkman. longtime customers in this world we call the entertain - cept of nightclub karaoke has never really rung my bell. A powerful vocalist in her own right, Brenda ment industry. Many clubs now do the karaoke thing, but performed with many of the bands she booked, and I Without trying to catalog or make any Action Magazine was started with live music arti - will never forget the last song she ever sang-- Peace In chronological sense out of year 2016, I went back cles, the first one 41 years ago on Willie Nelson, and The Valley.